Ownership

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Ownership manages direct and indirect ownership relationships between shareholders and entities, tracking ownership changes over time and identifying ultimate beneficial owners through complex ownership chains. This use case addresses modeling complex ownership structures with multiple shareholders, traversing ownership chains to identify indirect and beneficial ownership, tracking ownership changes through transactions and corporate actions, linking ownership to regulatory requirements, and supporting risk assessment and due diligence through comprehensive ownership analysis.

The Challenge

Organizations face challenges in ownership management:

• Ownership complexity — Entities may have complex ownership structures with multiple shareholders
• Indirect ownership — Identifying indirect ownership through complex ownership chains
• Temporal changes — Ownership changes over time through transactions, transfers, and corporate actions
• Beneficial ownership — Identifying ultimate beneficial owners through ownership chains
• Ownership types — Different types of ownership (direct, indirect, beneficial, legal) with different implications
• Regulatory requirements — Different jurisdictions have different requirements for ownership disclosure
• Data quality — Maintaining accurate and complete ownership records
• Relationship tracking — Understanding ownership relationships across entity networks

Why EKG is Required

Enterprise Knowledge Graphs provide powerful ownership management capabilities:

• Ownership modeling — Model complex ownership structures and relationships
• Chain traversal — Traverse ownership chains to identify indirect and beneficial ownership
• Temporal tracking — Track ownership changes over time and maintain historical ownership records
• Shareholder linking — Link ownership to shareholders, entities, and transactions
• Network analysis — Understand ownership relationships across entity networks
• Regulatory integration — Link ownership to regulatory requirements and compliance obligations
• Beneficial ownership — Identify ultimate beneficial owners through ownership chain analysis
• Multi-entity analysis — Analyze ownership structures across entity portfolios

Business Value

• Regulatory compliance — Meet requirements for ownership disclosure and beneficial ownership identification
• Risk assessment — Assess risk based on ownership structures and relationships
• Corporate governance — Support corporate governance through ownership structure understanding
• Due diligence — Support due diligence through comprehensive ownership analysis
• Operational efficiency — Automate ownership tracking and reduce manual management
• Strategic insights — Understand ownership structures and relationships across entity portfolio